Vegar became interested in Zen as a teenager, and moved to the United States to study it formally in 2002, first under Genpo Roshi, and since 2013 under Doen Roshi. After two decades abroad, he now lives back in his birthplace of Oslo, with his daughter Isa and dog Tenzing.

Vegar has been in care professions, done manual labor, and worked for several different political and spiritual organizations  He's into adventure and being outside in nature. These days he researches and writes about history, works with the non-profit organization Foreningen, and tries to establish a new branch of Lost Coin Zen in Norway and Europe.

Rebecca Sensei er nestlederen for Lost Coin Zen, har studert Zen i over 20 år og er Doen Roshi's første etterfølger. Hun er utdannet advokat fra Georgetown University, og har jobbet for statlige departementer, ideelle organisasjoner, og advokatfirma i Washington, D.C. før hun startet sitt eget advokatfirma i 2004. Rebecca er dypt entusiastisk når det kommer læring. Hun driver blant annet sitt eget bibliotek, samler på gamle bøker, fekter på nasjonalt Amerikansk nivå, og snakker og skriver flytende Mandarin Kinesisk.

Doen Roshi is the founder and leader of Lost Coin Zen. He was born to Jewish parents in Germany after World War II and moved to New York City as a child. He studied George Gurdjieff's Fourth Way from the late 1960s, but felt he still had more to understand after being made a teacher there. From the early 1980s he became a Zen student under Taizan Maezumi Roshi and John Daido Loori, with whom he helped build the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York.

He received dharma transmission from Genpo Roshi in 2002, holds a master's degree in English literature, a doctorate in psychology. He is an experienced chess player and has had careers as a psychologist, Zen teacher, and jazz musician. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Caryn and their dog Chance, where he pursues further studies and recordings of jazz.

Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995) moved to the United States from Japan in 1956. He was deeply admired as a “teacher of teachers,” and contributed immensely to the establishment and cultivation of Zen Buddhism in the United States and Europe. He received dharma transmission from Hakujun Kuroda Roshi in 1955, and later also received teacher recognition from Koryu Osaka Roshi and Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, making him the holder of three different lineages in the Zen tradition. He founded the Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA) and recognized twelve of his students as successors. The umbrella organization White Plum Sangha, which includes all of his successors and their students, and of which Lost Coin Zen is also a part, now has more than 200 Zen teachers and thousands of students worldwide.

Daido Roshi (1931-2009) received dharma transmission from Maezumi Roshi in 1986 as his fourth successor. He served in the United States Navy from 1947 to 1952, was a professional photographer, passionate outdoorsman, and author of more than 20 books. In the early 1980s, he founded and built up the influential Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskill Mountains of New York, together with Doen Roshi and others.
 

Genpo Roshi was born in Long Beach, California in 1944. He competed in swimming, was an All-American water polo player, bodyguard, and school teacher before becoming a student of Maezumi Roshi at ZCLA in 1972, and his second successor in 1980. He founded and led the Kanzeon Zen Center from 1984 until its dissolution in 2011, developing the Big Mind process as an amalgam of Zen and Jungian therapeutic techniques.

Willem Nyland (1890-1975) was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and came to know Gurdjieff's teachings in New York in the 1920s through A.R. Orage. He remained in direct contact with Gurdjieff for 25 years until his death in 1949. Mr. Nyland was known for his clarity and seriousness as an early student of Gurdjieff in America. He felt it was necessary to apply the Fourth Way work to daily life rather than just thinking or feeling the ideas. Mr. Nyland was one of Doens Roshi's principal teachers in this tradition.